The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

What is well done is done soon enough.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The property of power is to protect.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges